Adams, Lloyd Stanley (Flight Lieutenant)

Prisoner of War 1940-June-30

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Home: Smithville, Ontario

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Service

RAF

Unit

61 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Purum Tonantes Thundering through the clear air

Base

RAF Hemswell

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Observer

Service Numbers

41645
PoW: 94

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Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 232 Canadians in the Royal Air Force by Less Allison, page 99

Aircraft shot down at sea near Spieka south of Cuxhaven Germany.

Killed: Sergeant Ralph Burnett RAF KIA Becklingen War Cemetery grave 26. C. 14. Flying Officer George Michael Wyatt RAF KIA Becklingen War Cemetery grave 26. D. 1.

POWs: Pilot Officer Lloyd Stanley Adams RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Harold Gordon Hill RAF POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug.

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Mission

Hampden P4356

Bombing 1940-June-29 to 1940-June-30

61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Hemswell

61(Hull's own) Squadron RAF (Pur purum tonantes) RAF Hemswell. Hampden I aircraft P 4356 QR-S was shot down by a marine flak battery during an operation against targets in Geestacht, Germany. The Hampden crashed into shallow water just off the coast between Spieka Neufeld and Neuwerk, Germany

Sergeant R Burnett (RAF) and Flying Officer GM Wyatt (RAF) were killed in action

Pilot Officer LS Adams (RAF)(Can) and Sergeant HG Hill (RAF) survived and both were taken as Prisoners of War

unvetted Source [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...

unvetted Source Crash of a Handley Page HP52 Hampden I off Spieka: 2 killed I...

unvetted Source World War 2 - RAF No 61 Squadron, May/June 1940

unvetted Source Flugzeugabshusse und Abstruze um Cuxhaven im WW 2

unvetted Source 5e6b8ac17f499bfb284d024a_NCATheYearsPart1samplepages.pdf

Hampden serial: P4356

(RCAF Photo via Chris Charland)(Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Handley Page Hampden (Serial No. P5428), of No. 32 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Patricia Bay, British Columbia, in the torpedo-bomber training role between May 1942 and February 1944.

Handley Page developed a modern stressed-skin mid-wing monoplane, powered by Bristol Pegasus radial air cooled engines, with its first flight in 1936. It had the most advanced wings available at the time, giving it a remarkably low landing speed of 73 mph for an aircraft of its size, with a top speed of 265 mph. The Hampden had a short, narrow but tall main fuselage with a very slender tail unit. This configuration led to the nicknames "Flying Panhandle" and "Flying Suitcase". At the end of the war, no complete or partial Hampden aircraft were retained for museum display.

The Hampden served in the early stages of the war, bearing the brunt of the early bombing war over Europe, taking part in the first night raid on Berlin and in the first 1000-bomber raid on Cologne. In Canada, Hampdens were built by six companies that formed Associated Aircraft. There were three in Ontario and three in Quebec, hence they were identified as the Ontario Group and Quebec Group. They supplied all the the components to the two assembly plants. The Ontario Group's assembly plant was at the Malton Airport, while the Quebec group's assembly plant was at the St. Hubert Airport. Canadian Museum of Flight and Harold A Skaarup web page

YouTube Handley Page Hampden in Flight

Wikipedia Wikipedia Hampden Bomber

unvetted Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page

Kestrel Publications Hampden - Kestrel Publications